This seems like a good time to talk about the race for the vice presidency. Not because of the overwhelming excitement involved in what is essentially a backstage safari. And not because of the dazzling personalities being rigorously vetted. Because nothing else is going on. Right now, the Veepstakes is the only game in town.
Whenever a libertarian calls for the dismantling of the U.S. government’s overseas military empire and the end of foreign interventionism, the standard response of the pro-empire, pro-intervention crowd is, “We cannot return to isolationism. That would be a disaster.” The sentence is intended to immediately shut down all further discussion given the opprobrium that is attached to the term “isolationism.”
Just a few months ago, I was mesmerized by a tall and fit African-American man whose ears seemed to stick out a little like mine. (But, at least as a woman, I can cover mine up with hair.)
How The Environmental Movement Might Have Suceeded
Bulletin
By MWC NEWS
Monday, 30 June 2008
Remember Earth Day 1970? Remember the joy, the unity, the sense of mutual purpose? Remember the outcome? The passage of monumental federal laws on clean air, clean water,endangered species, workplace safety, toxics...followed by the establishment of state and local-level regulatory agencies and statutes to protect wildlife habitat, rivers, wetlands, endangered species and to enforce federal laws? Remember the explosion of national, regional and local environmental groups to lobby, educate, and enforce the new laws?
Iraq is set to award oil contracts to dozens of foreign companies in a bid to boost production that could also give multinationals a foothold in the country's large but underdeveloped oil fields.
An African Union (AU) summit has opened in Egypt amid growing calls for African leaders to shun Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, over his widely discredited re-election.
More than five years after the US invasion of Iraq, an official US army account of the occupation is set to admit just how flawed the planning for the operation was.
The majority of Turks say they would not favour banning the ruling party and think that any such decision would trigger unrest in the country, according to an opinion poll.
Anglican leaders have vowed to set up a separate council of bishops as an alternative to churches they say are preaching a "false gospel" of sexual immorality.
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More than five years after the US invasion of Iraq, an official US army account of the occupation is set to admit just how flawed the planning for the operation was.
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